Optimal professional skills development requires adequate assessment and development tools. One of the most successful methods for developing social and emotional skills, which are important for counselling, is video training, which allows for visualized self-reflection and self-assessment. The video training method helps students find a balance between managing the counselling interview and a respectful partnership approach, finding their own way to build a relationship with and activate the client. The aim of this paper is to present our experience with the use of video-based interaction guidance in the development of social and emotional competences of students of the Career Guidance, Counselling and Education programme at Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, which we piloted in the course Counselling Interview. The video recording can be one of the self-assessment tools that enables students to become aware of the potential for further development of social and emotional skills towards competences through self-awareness.